This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 Excerpt: ...account of its condition in his day, which might be about a century before Brydone saw it: --' Ostendit mihi viae dux, unius castaniae corticem, tantae magnitudinis, ut intra earn integer pecorum grex, a pastoribus tanquam in caula commodissima, noctu intercluderetur.' t From this account, one should imagine that in ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 Excerpt: ...account of its condition in his day, which might be about a century before Brydone saw it: --' Ostendit mihi viae dux, unius castaniae corticem, tantae magnitudinis, ut intra earn integer pecorum grex, a pastoribus tanquam in caula commodissima, noctu intercluderetur.' t From this account, one should imagine that in Kircher's days the five trees were more united than when Brydone saw them. In his interesting work on Mount Etna, published last See Brydone's Trav., vol L p. 117. f My guide showed me here, what I can call only the shell, or bark of a Chestnut tree, but of such amazing circumference, that one of the shepherds of the country used it as a fold for a largo flock of sheep. year, Mr. G. F. Eodwell writes concerning the gigantic and famous Chestnut, as follows; 'The celebrated Gastagno di Cento Cavalli, one of the largest and oldest trees in the world, is in the forest of Carpinetto, on the east side of the mountain, five miles from Giarre. This tree has the appearance of five separate trunks united into one, but Ferrara declares that, by digging a very short distance below the surface, he found one single stem. The public road now passes through the much-decayed trunk. Captain Symth measured the circumference a few feet from the ground, and found it to be 163 feet, which would give it a diameter of more than fifty feet. The tree derives its name from the story that one of the Queens of Aragon took shelter in its trunk with a suite of 100 horsemen, Mr. Rodwell adds: --' Near this patriarch are several large Chestnuts, which, without a shadow of doubt, are single trees; one of these is eighteen feet in diameter, and a second fifteen feet, while the Gastagno delta Galea, higher up on the mountains, is twenty-five feet in diameter, and probably more than .
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